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Drop frame capturing HD 1080i on scsi disks
Hi
I have some really anoing problems capturing HD uncompressed material.
I startet capturing, it all whent well for about half an hour, then fcp startet to drop frames.
I still had 500 GB left on my 1.2 TB huge mediavalt.
I tried to boot up in another osx instalation, then i could capture again for half an hour. Now i dont have any other
intalations left ;). and are still missing 20 min.
What can be wrong?
I have tried to update my kona2 card, scsi driver and flash the scsi card. The flash actually improved the disk speed a litle bit, it around 135-140 MB/s. (not enough!)
Why did it work in the beginnig and then stopped? I have tried to trash my prefs and the fcp cache.
Any ideas. Have a deadline for tomorrow 🙁reg.
MartinW -
3 Replies
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No matter what you’re using FCP does not want to capture more that 30 minutes at a time. It’s just one of those quirks we love so much. Try starting a new project and bring in the rest of the footage.
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I have logged all my material in chunks of 10 min.
(BTW. the 30 min. limit can be unchecked in you settings)
But you are right, it would be mean to load 30 min of uncompressed HD in 1 file, then you ask for problems ;).
My problem is that when I have loaded 3×10 min. it starts to drop frames.reg.
Martin W -
YES…
In the middle of the night it suddenly starts to work. Why i don’t know!?
I kind of gave up on it, tried to capture in dvcprhd- that work well, i thought i would give the uncompressed 8 bit another chance, it work TOO.
Well why try and go back to uncompessed 10 bit HD… YES all running smooth.
The write speed i suddenly up on 220 – 250 MB/s on scs raid.
I’m not an hard disk expert, but could it be a bad sektor that i had to get past?well i will go home and get som sleep 🙂
regards
Martin W
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